<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:#FFAE30"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";color:#943634;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Delhi
Statement</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:35.45pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#943634;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:35.45pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:18.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#943634;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Time to Untie the Knots: </span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;tab-stops:35.45pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#943634;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">the WHO Reform and the Need for Democratizing Global
Health</span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:35.45pt"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;color:#943634;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;tab-stops:35.45pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">As representatives of
organisations working on campaigns for health and social justice, of academia,
governments and multilateral institutions, we gathered in New Delhi from 2^nd
to 4^th May 2011, from all parts of the world, to address the need
for an effective and accountable global governance for health. In the wake of
the Regional Dialogue on the right to health held in Johannesburg at the end of
March, the purpose of this global consultation was to achieve a common vision
for realizing the human right of everyone “to the highest attainable standard
of physical and mental health “, and reignite a health for all movement with
shared objectives and actions.</span></i></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></i></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">H</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">ealth is an essential
condition for human and social development. That is why the right to health is
enshrined in the Constitution of the World Health Organization, in the
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (CESRC) and in
over 130 national constitutions worldwide. Yet, it concerns us that while
health is increasingly recognized in both international and national law to be
enforceable, the health of the majority of world population remains
insufficiently protected and promoted.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"American Typewriter";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> In the last two decades 20 million people, at least
one third of all deaths, have continued to die every year due to global health
inequity. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Even now, when global health and poverty
reduction are relatively high on the international policy agenda, and governments
are launching directs assaults on poverty through various programmes, health
inequalities within and between countries are on the rise. Persistent poverty
and growing inequalities, these intractable foes, are stark reminders that
economic globalization and market liberalization have not created an
environment conducive to sustainable and equitable social development. On the
contrary, new emerging threats to health – the global economic and financial
crisis, climate change, food insecurity, mounting unemployment – can rapidly
worsen an already desperate situation for billions of people, the growing poor
and marginalised.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Health is a common good that demands
collective responsibility. Instead, structural violations of the right to
health are produced by the dominant market dynamics and the uncontrolled
influence of profit-driven transnational corporations, supported by the
policies of international financial and trade institutions – the International
Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the World Trade Organization. Such violations
are often unmonitored, unmeasured, and are too numerous to quantify. As they
form part of a process of systematic violations of other rights - to gender
equality, to water and food, to work and income, to housing and education - any
commitment for the right to health cannot be conceived in isolation from a
broader approach of universal social protection as a key policy to human
development.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">As the UN health agency, the WHO remains in today’s globalised world</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> the “directing and coordinating
authority” f</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">or the realization of the right to health and
universal coverage. Its </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">role as the sole global legal authority in health is embedded in its
constitution, and needs to be strongly supported. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">T</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">he
last few decades, however, have witnessed the rapid emergence </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:"American Typewriter";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">of new
actors </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">who have highlighted
health as a priority and largely shaped the global agenda, but also contributed
to much fragmentation in health governance. Their</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
"American Typewriter";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> increasing prominence has
produced a shift in institutional culture, favouring the penetration of market
values into areas where they do not traditionally belong and resulting in a new
sphere of influence in health policies. This trend has progressively </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">stifled the voices of
Member States and weakened the institutional mandate of WHO, </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:"American Typewriter";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">with
controversial implications. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
"American Typewriter";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
"American Typewriter";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">The topics of global health
governance and the WHO reform agenda were prominently featured during the WHO
Executive Board debate in January 2011, a development we welcome.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Fire has been lit and WHO, through its Member
States, needs to take responsibility for the policy dialogue opportunity it has
opened up. It is a collective responsibility, too. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
"American Typewriter";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
"American Typewriter";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Our gathering in New Delhi, just
before the 64^th World Health Assembly, bears witness to how
seriously the process initiated by the </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">WHO Director General is taken by organizations engaged in social justice
worldwide. We are convinced that WHO needs to rediscover </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">its fundamental
multilateral identity.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Drawing on its strengths, the organization has to take
advantage of its reform process to rethink and reassert itself as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">the</i> leading actor in a broader
governance for health that is coherent with the need for solid public policy
responses to the neoliberal prescriptions, so that globalization be shaped
around the core values of equality and social justice. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">But governance for health starts at home. Governments, the main
stakeholders of WHO, have clear obligations to the people they represent.
Beyond mere institutional approaches, issues related to public policies in health
have to be democratically debated and tackled at the local, national and
regional level. This entails the continued participation and meaningful
contribution of communities, public opinions, and their direct empowerment
through education and knowledge sharing. Unless and until governments have the
people directly affected around the decision-making tables, their health
policies will remain ineffective. Health democracy, namely participation,
transparency and accountability in health, is a pre-condition for countries to
make an impact in the decision making processes at the global level, within WHO
and in other multilateral fora.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><br style="mso-special-character:
line-break">
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">We, the participants in the New Delhi
consultation<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">Call on Member States to strengthen the enforceability of the right to
health, and the other economic, social and cultural rights. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">We </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">draw their attention to the need for an improved legal framework to
enhance the limited national enforcement provisions and absence of enforcement
internationally, despite the binding nature of the right to health. Precise
mandatory arrangements and monitoring mechanisms are required. We support the
exploration of and research into a binding framework convention on global health,
and on universal social protection to this end; </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">Are convinced that the primary responsibility to enforce the right to
health lies with national governments<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">.</b>
Any endeavour to fulfil countries’ legal obligation to respect, promote and
fulfil this right on a non-discriminatory and equitable manner must include
communities as well as the engagement of public interest organisations. Without
people’s mobilization, human rights cannot be met. The right to health is no
exception. <span style="mso-tab-count:1">         </span><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
<br style="mso-special-character:line-break">
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"American Typewriter";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Consider that the implementation of the right to
health, beyond its technical and legal aspects and financial implications,
entails political will and policy coherence across sectors. Therefore, the
right to health must </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">have priority in
all national and international negotiations and agreements that have an impact
on health</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> (environment, energy,
labour, trade, agriculture, taxation). Transnational corporations are to be
held accountable in this regard;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in;text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Urge governments to
tackle the structural downsides associated with the current global health
governance<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b>- its fragmentation,
inadequate global leadership, institutional weakening of mandated bodies,
inadequate health financing, erosion of poor countries’ ownership of their health
and development agenda, etc. - and overcome the poor accountability of the
ever-growing number of agencies and initiatives, which has led to unnecessary
high transactions costs, wasted resources, and drained absorptive capacity; </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Favourably consider
the proposal by WHO for innovative consultation mechanisms that allow
meaningful participation of the multiple actors involved in global health and
require that the WHO consult with public interest groups to this end.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>We encourage WHO to undertake and properly
resource public hearings that must be inclusive, participatory, democratic,
accountable and transparent, including through electronic means, in order to
inform the development of relevant public health policies, rather than creating
new permanent peer structures that do not appear to tackle the heart of the
global governance intricacies. A sustainable long term plans is needed to
re-build a democratic and effective global governance for health;</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:
Calibri;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">6.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Strongly challenge
the increasingly disproportionate participation of the corporate private sector
in WHO processes without a robust mechanism to address conflict of interests.
WHO needs to develop a comprehensive framework that would guide interaction
with commercial actors as well as develop and implement measures to avoid and
properly manage conflict of interest situations. These go beyond transparency
and include a clear definition of institutional conflict of interest, clear
entry criteria and sunset clauses; </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">7.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Demand that WHO
clearly defines its stakeholders. Since the reform of the WHO is aiming at
enlarging interaction, and increasing trust, with a wider range of actors, it
is crucial that the reform package be characterised by a process in which the
space for contributions is based on the voice and needs of people, not the
power of money. This requires clear definition of actors and their roles, goals
and interests. Prior to the convening of any structured public dialogue for
global health, all these issues need to be addressed and clarified.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>This process would contribute to but not
replace the formal decision making process at the World Health Assembly, where
countries are represented; </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">8.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Urge Member States
to focus on taxation as one of the key policy instruments to enhance revenue
capacity to advance human welfare<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">,</b>
and in particular to finance a home-grown health agenda. Achieving the right to
health and other basic rights is conditional on the availability of financial
resources to fund them. We propose a human right perspective on tax systems and
urge governments to intensify the redistribution of wealth for promoting social
cohesion and fair growth.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>The world is
awash in money and time has come to focus on wealth as a way to reconnect
redistribution and social policy with economic and fiscal policymaking.
Progressive taxation is a key process to nurture a healthy relationship between
a state and its citizens, at the national and international level, beyond
short-term donor support and excessive dependence on philanthropic funding.
Operational suggestions in this area should be addressed and enacted through a
global framework focussed on the principle of solidarity.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">9.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">    
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Recall that
international solidarity </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB">is essential in many countries with insufficient financial potential to
ensure the necessary human and material resources to guarantee the right to
health. Today’s non binding provisions need to be turned into mandatory
arrangements if we are to make such support predictable and long term. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">10.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Strongly encourage
Member States to increase their financial contributions to WHO and enhance
their impact in the organisation. The idea that WHO should overcome its
budgetary pressures by drawing resources from the private and commercial
sector, as suggested in para 76 of the DG report (WHA 64/4 Future of Financing of
WHO, </span><span lang="DE"><a href="http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA64/A64_4-en.pdf"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">http://apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/WHA64/A64_4-en.pdf</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">),</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica;mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-fareast-language:IT"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">is one to be rejected.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">11.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Recognize that, as
public interest organizations, we have to make efforts to strengthen our own
transparency and enhance accountability in our work, to improve democracy on
health. We commit to this goal through participatory mechanisms. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-fareast-font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-bidi-font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">12.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">  
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Engage to continuing
the process of collective learning and alliance building to ensure that the
right to health is placed at the centre of national and global policymaking,
and to shape an effective and accountable global governance for health.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Baskerville Old Face'; font-size: 15px; ">The Delhi meeting was convened by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Prayas, Sochara, PHM, PHFI, </i>and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">
Medico International</i></span></p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt">

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">For further information: </span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:gebauer@medico.de"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">gebauer@medico.de</span></b></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> & <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:nicolettadentico@libero.it"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";
color:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">nicolettadentico@libero.it</span></b></a></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">Medico
International</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Baskerville Old Face";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB">, Burgstr. 106, D- 60389
Frankfurt, Germany</span></p></div>